About Me

I was a reporter and columnist for 40 years for a chain of newspapers in the suburbs of Chicago. I'm a military veteran having served in the United States Army Combat Engineers (Cpl. E-4) and a Korean War veteran with an Honorable Discharge from the Armed Forces of the United States of America

Saturday, July 17, 2010

Poverty is everywhere in Afghanistan and all the money the U.S. is pouring into the country goes into hands of war lords.One out of ever four Afghan babies born die in the first year from malnutrition.TURN UP YOUR SOUNDWATCH VIDEO HERE:http://www.youtube.com/v/3inoawWmYXY&hl=en_US&fs=1

The children of Afghanistan are so desperate for food they have turned to smuggling just to survive.In this video you will see young Afghan boys smuggling flour across the border from Pakistan.TURN UP YOUR SOUNDWATCH VIDEO HERE:http://www.youtube.com/v/fHxSapWp7Qk&hl=en_US&fs=1

Violent combat videos from the front lines of the battle against the Taliban in Afghanistan.NOTE: This is a playlist of combat videos. Stay with it and more videos will play.TURN UP YOUR SOUNDWATCH VIDEOS HERE:http://www.youtube.com/v/rVtot3yCDK4&hl=en_US&fs=1

One British and one American soldier were killed in two attacks on Saturday while the other troopers died a day earlier, NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and Britain's defence ministry said. Another NATO soldier was killed in a separate attack on Saturday, ISAF said, without giving the trooper's nationality.

Robert Greenwald, producer of BraveNew Films, has produced this documentary showing how more troops to Afghanistan is not the solution to Afghanistan's problems.This is Part One of the series---Rethink Afghanistan.TURN UP YOUR SOUNDWATCH VIDEO HERE:http://www.youtube.com/v/gPUwQGmMSm0&hl=en_US&fs=1

General David Petraeus, who is now in command of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, vows to curtail the number of civilian casualties but the objective is nearly impossible because the Taliban don't wear uniforms and our troops have no idea who is a "good guy" and who is a "bad guy."TURN UP YOUR VOLUMEWATCH VIDEO HERE:http://www.youtube.com/v/n-_lQz4AA74&hl=en_US&fs=1